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the Independent Republic of Mike Graham on Talk Radio.

Good morning and welcome to the Independent Republic of Mike Graham right here on Talk

Radio. So, how was it for you then? Prime Minister Boris Johnson went to the trouble

of calling the nation's press into his 2.6 million pound briefing room yesterday afternoon to tell

them absolutely nothing. The square root of nothing, nothing times a million, and it was nothing

to write home about, quite frankly. After leaking most of the details about travel systems operated

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